Obama Health Secretary: ‘We’ve Got a Lot of Reeducation to Do’

soooo what are you suggesting CBA, a third revolution? (civil war was the second)

The re-education should start with the government.
The CBO does NOT support the claim that the health care legislation will save money from Medicare.
Moreover, the “doctor fix” which is essential to Medicare and Medicaid was deliberately left out of the legislation.
Why? To make it appear that the legislation would not add to the budget deficit.
But, the “doctor fix” will have to be approved soon, and it will add to the deficit when it’s passed.
The legislation, in principle, is good. In reality, it doesn’t make economic sense.

“As a widely-watched survey shows support for the new health care reform law slipping, the leader in the reform effort says the administration has “a lot of reeducation to do” to reverse the trend.”
Reeducation – the term governments love to use for brainwashing and indoctrination. If the bill hadn’t been 2000+ pages long “reeducation” wouldn’t be necessary…or was obfuscation and information overload that the whole point?

Wow Robert, It appears you’ve already been “re-educated”.

reeducation?
what kind of newspeak 1984 garbage is that?

re-education????
Who said Orwell was wrong?

Wow, this site was once one of the most active and intellectually challenging. What happened?

Re-education? Like in Communist Re-education camps and Obama’s hero Ayers that the FBI testitified that Ayers and friends “I asked, “well what is going to happen to those people we can’t reeducate, that are diehard capitalists?” and the reply was that they’d have to be eliminated.
And when I pursued this further, they estimated they would have to eliminate 25 million people in these reeducation centers.
And when I say “eliminate,” I mean “kill.”
Twenty-five million people.
I want you to imagine sitting in a room with 25 people, most of which have graduate degrees, from Columbia and other well-known educational centers, and hear them figuring out the logistics for the elimination of 25 million people.
And they were dead serious.”

IndpendentVoice, if you believe that – if you really and truly believe that – why do you still live in this country?

Show me one single poll where “support” for this bill ever topped fifty percent? You can’t, because there aren’t any. Ruling against the will of the people gets you kicked out of office. Ta! Can’t wait until November! Toodles! Buh bye! Sayonara! Later! Don’t let the doors hit you in the butt on the way out! Vaya con dios! Aloha! You Democrats are going to need a satellite image to get a look at Washington come November.

Health and Human Services Secretary Kathleen Sebelius states: As of this week, 1 million seniors have received $250 rebate checks to help them fill the “donut hole” in Medicare’s prescription drug coverage. Sebelius says by the end of the year, as many as 4 million Part D participants may get checks.
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They ‘may’? You mean you don’t know, Ms. Secretary?
Why should I be surprised though? Congress and the administration have said they don’t know what was in the bill when it was passed.

We just don’t care anymore. We just don’t care. Do whatever you want, Washington. We’re getting off the grid. We’re crashing your economy. We’re done with your insane demands for 100% taxation on everything we earn (oh yes it’s 100% eventually… watch the numbers and add it up). We’re done. We’re the most productive people you have, but we’re done. You pushed us too hard, too far, for too long. You’re on your own. We’re shutting down the factories, we’re moving jobs overseas, we’re quitting your scheme. And no, we’re not leaving America. We ARE America.

well the wealthly cant stand anyone else getting something they need!

What bugs me is the assertion that the administration needs to ‘reeducate’ American citizens. Heck, I don’t even like the assertion they think they educated us the first time.
No, Ms. Secretary, you have a lot of explaining to do. You need to explain to American citizens what was in that monstrosity…with no justifications, no confusion, no self-serving statements of wonderful, wonderful ‘us’.
What will it do for us, what will it do against us? How much will it REALLY cost in tax dollars and out-of-pocket direct costs for the healthcare user?
What new taxes or ‘fees’ are going to be needed to pay for it?
This administration and Congress need to explain to their bosses just what the heck did you REALLY do about reforming health care vs forcing everyone to buy health insurance.

mal2cats….”ms secretary” CAN’T tell you what’s in the bill. She has no idea. Even the author of the bill stated, day before yesterday, “Of course I didn’t read it. We hire experts for that. It’s full of legalese, and I don’t have time to read that, nor would I understand it.” But they’ll ‘re-educate’ US

I know that, ncpilot, unfortunately it’s hard to ‘type’ tone of voice.

Getting closer…now you may come to realize why it’s so important that Americans retain their right to own firearms. It is the only thing that the individual politician still fears from the citizenry.

I support Health CARE Reform, which to me shouldn’t be just an attack on Health Insurance cos. as some kind of scapegoat. The government wants to tax the so-called Cadillac plans, so that people will settle for whittled down plans, where they can pay more out of pocket, for already over-priced care. The other answers is cutting down on what may be necessary tests, without questioning why an MRI costs as much as a new car. There are a lot of greedy hands in the health care industry, from the Medical suppliers, to the Pharmaceutical cos. the doctors, etc. along WITH the insurance cos. The other half of the problem is the consumers, with their self-will, in this I’ll do what I want society, running up the bill for everyone. I SUPPORT TOTAL HEALTH CARE REFORM–LOOKING AT EVERYONES PART.

The_mick…….what polls are you talking about?? Honestly, I’d love for you to cite one single poll that shows the GOP has a lower rating than the Democratic party. No arguing, no fussing, no calling you any bad names. But you are so incorrect that it’s laughable because on the headlines of all of the news stations today is, “for the first time, the GOP rating exceeds 10% ABOVE the rating of the Democratic party. 51% to 41%” If you do not believe me, go to the Gallup Poll website. Of course, I expect that rather than admit you are wrong, you will take the typical liberal come-back of, “What do polls know anyway?” Or, “Poll takers (even Gallup) know nothing (especially when their data flies in the face of what I think)”…….please, go take a look. And look at “realclearpolitics” And Rasmussen. AP Polls. You will not find a single poll that shows that American voters hold the GOP in lower esteem than the Democratic party. You willing to take that challenge? If so, you big enough to come back and admit you are wrong?

oops…”they’re” not “their”…need more coffee.

Good idea, davidfrat. I’ve been up since 2:30…I need more coffee.

malcat……i’m afraid that that is exactly what she meant also. I’m starting to feel that the term is just part of the vernacular of the obama camp. The word is probably bantered about so non-chalantly in their everyday speech that it sorta just slipped out when she was speaking in public.

Secretary Sebelius should be educating Congress. In order for her savings to occur and the Medicare Trust Fund have its life extended 12 years; members of Congress must vote in December to cut physician reimbursement for Medicare patients by 23%. Then they must cut another 6% in January. Doctors are already at or below breakeven when providing care to Medicare patients, now they are going to have to absorb another 30% pay cut. If this doesn’t happen then Ms. Sebelius should come under fire for not being completely honest with the general public.

There is a degree of voter distrust of the voters in the history of the electorate college……but not because of niaivity or gullibilty…more from ignorance. And I don’t mean ignorance in a derogatory sense. There was no TV, no mass media….so a lot of the problems of the day were not “public knowledge”……so the electorate college acts as a buffer between the voters and the president.

WOW! Look at NovaB,the obama apologist, attempting to minimize and excuse obama’s failures by pointing out his perceived short-comings of past presidents or leaders. obama is the president now. 19 months of him and his clowns have caused the recession to get worse, have delayed the recovery, and has crippled small business, the backbone of our economy. But he has managed to pump money to his special interest supporters like his homies in Chicago and his Union Thugs supporters. He’s managed to meet with important people like Paul McCartney and the various NBA teams. He has rubbed elbows with the Hollywood elite, and he has managed to blame all of his failures on his “inherited” mess. I suppose in the future, as you desperately try to rationalize your position of today in the future, you will omit obama’s failures just as you omit Carter’s, Clinton’s, and Johnson………It’s old hat and very boring now…..obama is the president

Bob, why do you think that having to buy into the HCR is the ONLY reason that Americans oppose it? That just is not a correct assumption. I, for one..along with 56% of the population, oppose it because it is too costly to the NATION, not to me. It was hammered together behind closed doors, and passed ONLY through intimidation, coercion, and bribery. A good bill would not have required illegal actions to get passed. The author of the bill, just the day before yesterday, admitted that he had not read the bill. The quality of care is bound to decrease….and for those who may think that this bill will give ‘equal access’ to healthcare, i’d suggest that they simply look at countries that do have socialized medicine. Do you think that the ‘elite’…the politicians, the hollywood stars, and athletes…do you honestly believe that if you get a disease exactly the same as, say, Brad Pitt gets….do you really think that you will receive the same degree of care and treatment, the same quality of hospital, and the same highly educated specialist that Mr. Pitt will get? Do ya really???

I had a SCUBA diving accident in Grand Cayman several years ago. I was taken to the local hospital…..where I received pretty good care. The cost was minimal. But the hospital was pretty shabby (from lack of funding), not what I was used to. I’m not complaining…they did a great job. But it was the “common-man’s” hospital. The politicians had a newer facility.

it just flabbergasts me when liberals (or conservatives, for that matter) come in and make a statement like that: “The people who want to repeal the health insurance reform tend to enhance the more scary parts of the bill with misinformation and inuendo and suggesting opinion as being fact. 90% of the insurance reform bill is being ignored.” You really think that sounds intelligent in insightful? Of course it has some good things in it…..but why in the world would anyone cite the good things as a reason to want the bill overthrown? That would be like telling the judge all the good things about your spouse when you are asking for a divorce.

“We have a lot of reeducation to do,” Sebelius said.
And here comes the enema, flushing out what you really know with more Government BS.

Reeducation? Are you kidding? That smacks of Communisim and Socialism. This is a free country and my first and second ammendment rights are going to keep it that way. The Obama Administration is who needs reeducation; and that my friends will come in November. Even, whatever October suprise Obama drums up or real world action like Isreal taking out Iran’s Nuclear plant, will not stop the Conservitive uprising!

We need to get education (politics)
out of the fed. gov. and return to
county government and parents.
Bring back the America we knew.
NO more spending on or breeding of
‘special interest groups’.
Lessen power of fed gov.

Re-educate us on health care?
It is all right to cut seniors treatments, after all we are running out of social security because we are giving it to illegal aliens, and this may cause seniors not to live as long, which will help with social security payments.
If a person, any person no matter what age, has a 50-50 chance of survival, just give them pain medications. They more than likely will not make it anyway. Why waste money on treatments.